2005FPW resolution nightmare

Question

OK, I just bought this beautiful 2005fpw, looks like a great monitor and I can't use it at all. My notebook has a Radeon 9200, which only supports 16/9 screens at 1920 x 1080, and the Dell complains that it doesn't support that resolution and does nothing. Even my desktop has a Radeon 7000 in it that doesn't support any high resolutions applicable to this monitor. I downloaded Powerstrip, and tried settinng up a custom resolution, but that doesn't work: I end up with an incorrect aspect ratio (my notebook only has a composite and s-video out, the latter I haven't tried). Otherwise, on the monitor I can change the image settings/scaling to 1:1 and get a little tiny picture in the screen, to aspect to get the right aspect ratio (sometimes) but typically leaving big black strips on either side, or to Fill which stretches the aspect ratio out of proportion.

I do drafting, so the aspect ratio has to be right. I guess I was an idiot leaving this question unasked until I opened the box, but I can't believe more people aren't running into it. Am I missing something? Is there no way to get this working (on my notebook, preferably, which means no new video board). I have downloaded the latest drivers I can find for the 9200 (have to use Compaq drivers, ATI doesn't support imbedded video cards or something).

Compaq x1000 notebook with Radeon 9200 card on motherboard. Huge thanks to anyone that can give me a hand with this!

ciao, keith

arthas76 · Answer

you knew ahead of time the max resolution, why didnt you check to make sure your laptop supported it?   i think there is a setting that allows you to display unsupported resolutions somewhere in windows, but this is YMMV

keithwins · Answer

Well, actually my machine does support greater than the maximum resolution of this monitor: it just doesn't support the specific resolution. For example, the only 16/9 aspect ratio resolution the Radeon supports is 1920x1080, and the monitor can't do anything at all with that (its max being 1680 x 1024). Meanwhile, if I give it other resolutions that it can't handle, it figures out how to squish them or let them run off the edge or other responses. So the only resolution that should lead to a proper aspect ratio, is locked out.

I'd hoped that the Powerstrip utility would solve the problem, but it seems to only fake a proper resolution, I don't think it's changing what's being sent to the monitor, just what's being reported. Oh well. I would strongly encourage people to be careful buying this monitor, since I also can't get it to work with my desktop Radeon 7000/VE, but at least that one I could upgrade the card. I'm just out of luck with my laptop (which is what I really use). And, since I bought it "used" (new but separated from a system by an individual), I can get no Dell support, unless I buy it at $200/year (not even per incident!). I am dissapointed and much less apt to go Dell again (I've bought a lot of Dell over the years). Oh well.

keithwins · Answer

I've checked using Moninfo, and it does seem that my laptop is putting out 1680x1050. The Dell is clearly showing 1280x1050 or something like that, stretched to fit the wide screen, which is why the aspect ratio is wrong and there is "invisible" screen off to one side, where my mouse can get lost since it's not displayed on either of my monitors. It looks like a problem with the monitor, since the 1:1, fill, and aspect settings make no difference (and I'm sure they should!). I wonder if anyone else has had this problem? Here are the moninfo results:

Monitor
Windows description......... Dell 2005FPW (Analog)
Manufacturer description.... DELL 2005FPW
Manufacturer................ Dell
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Plug and Play ID............ DELE008
Serial number............... T61304CM09FL
EDID data source............ I2C bus (real-time)
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Manufacture date............ 2004, ISO week 51
EDID revision............... 1.3
Display type and signal..... Analog 0.700,0.000 (0.7V p-p)
Sync input support.......... Separate, Composite, Sync on green
Screen size................. 430 x 270 mm (~21")
Power management............ Standby, Suspend, Active off/sleep

Color characteristics
Display gamma............... 2,20
Red chromaticity............ Rx 0,637 - Ry 0,340
Green chromaticity.......... Gx 0,297 - Gy 0,610
Blue chromaticity........... Bx 0,146 - By 0,071
White point (default)....... Wx 0,313 - Wy 0,329

Timing characteristics
VESA GTF support............ Not supported
Horizontal scan range....... 30-83kHz
Vertical scan range......... 56-75Hz
Video bandwidth............. 150MHz
Extension blocks............ n/a
Timing recommendation #1.... 1680x1050 at 60Hz
Modeline................ "1680x1050" 146,250 1680 1784 1960 2240 1050 1053 1059 1089 -hsync +vsync

Standard timings supported
640 x 480 at 60Hz - IBM VGA
640 x 480 at 75Hz - VESA
720 x 400 at 70Hz - IBM VGA
800 x 600 at 60Hz - VESA
800 x 600 at 75Hz - VESA
1024 x 768 at 60Hz - VESA
1024 x 768 at 75Hz - VESA
1152 x 864 at 75Hz - VESA
1280 x 1024 at 60Hz - VESA
1280 x 1024 at 75Hz - VESA
1680 x 1050 at 60Hz - Dell

Raw EDID base
00: 00 FF FF FF FF FF FF 00 10 AC 08 E0 4C 46 39 30
10: 33 0E 01 03 6E 2B 1B 78 EA 01 95 A3 57 4C 9C 25
20: 12 50 54 A5 4B 00 81 80 71 4F 01 01 01 01 01 01
30: 01 01 01 01 01 01 21 39 90 30 62 1A 27 40 68 B0
40: 36 00 B2 0E 11 00 00 1C 00 00 00 FF 00 54 36 31
50: 33 30 34 43 4D 30 39 46 4C 0A 00 00 00 FD 00 38
60: 4B 1E 53 0F 00 0A 20 20 20 20 20 20 00 00 00 FC
70: 00 44 45 4C 4C 20 32 30 30 35 46 50 57 0A 00 19

Display adapter
Adapter description......... MOBILITY RADEON 9200
Adapter device ID........... 0x4C661002
Display settings............ 1680x1050, 32bpp

User/computer information
Registered user name........ Keith Winston
Registered organization..... n/a
Network user name........... Keith Winston
Network computer name....... KW8-COMPAQX1000
Windows version ............ Windows XP
Windows build .............. 5.01.2600 Service Pack 2
Installation date .......... n/a

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